Albarka Air was an

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based in

Abuja Abuja () is the capital and eighth most populous city of Nigeria. Situated at the centre of the country within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), it is a planned city built mainly in the 1980s based on a master plan by International Plann ...

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. It operated scheduled and charter services within Nigeria and charters to other countries in central and west

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. Its main base was

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, Abuja.

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27 March 2007

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: AL-AIR

Destinations

Albarka Air operated services to the following domestic scheduled destinations (at January 2005):

Lagos Lagos (Nigerian English: ; ) is the largest city in Nigeria and the List of cities in Africa by population, second most populous city in Africa, with a population of 15.4 million as of 2015 within the city proper. Lagos was the national ca ...

Maiduguri Maiduguri is the capital and the largest city of Borno State Borno State is a state in the North-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria, bordered by Yobe to the west, Gombe to the southwest, and Adamawa to the south while its eastern border form ...

and Yola.

References

Defunct airlines of Nigeria Airlines established in 1999 Airlines disestablished in 2007 1999 establishments in Nigeria 2007 disestablishments in Nigeria Economy of Abuja {{Nigeria-airline-stub